Emerging from the silos: how the NHS can support economic growth
The Strategy Unit has been leading the way on supporting local NHS bodies to consider the wider economic impact of how they operate. Here, David Frith highlights what a shift this is for the NHS, along with the range of opportunities NHS bodies should consider exploring.
They don’t believe you
Continuing our mental and physical health guest blog series, Sophie Corlett the Director of External Relations at Mind provides some perspectives from people with physical ailments who are users of mental health services.
New care models - what's the evidence
High level findings from a series of evidence reviews on new care models.
Evaluation of Building the Right Support: findings to date
Building the Right Support is a national plan to provide better support to people with a learning disability or autism. It says what services and supports are needed to help people whose behaviour challenges services or who have mental health problems.
Mind and body: inseparable twins
Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, reflects on the relationship between mental and physical health and the need for better integration of care.
What can the NHS learn from the EU
What could NHS policy makers learn from the European Union?
Let’s face the music and (not) dance
David Frith leads our strategy consultancy work with NHS and third sector organisations.
PDSA Cycles
Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles, developed by Walter Shewhart and Edward Deming, are a common model used for testing small scale changes.
Why community alternatives to hospital admission don’t (typically) reduce total admission levels
Repeatedly, published evaluations show that community/primary care services interventions with a stated intention to reduce total (or forecast total) emergency admissions to hospital don’t achieve the expected result**
Innovation and evaluation – a proposition for change, an offer of support
Health and care services in England are labouring under a chronic state of stress – where for many organisations, ‘just about coping’ has become the new normal.
Innovation & evaluation – our initial offer to clients
This document provides more detail on our initial offer to clients – including our series of training workshops, our innovation & evaluation to
Painful conversations. A GP perspective on chronic pain.
Dr Paul Roberts, Director of the North Staffordshire GP Federation provides a GP perspective in his contribution to the Strategy Unit’
Fishbone
The fishbone tool, developed by Kaoru Ishikawa, is a cause and effect analysis that helps you to understand a range of the causes to a problem, not
Innovation & evaluation – a proposition for change and an offer of support
In this interactive PDF, we set out our thinking on innovation and evaluation, as well as our overall offer of support at individual, organisation
Evaluating innovations – why, what and how? A menu of potential options…
In this document, we set out the core principles underlying high quality evaluation.
RAIDPlus Test Bed Evaluation – BSMHFT
In this case study, we describe the challenge, our approach and the outcome from our mixed methods evaluation of the RAIDPlus Test Bed Evaluation.
The EPIC Programme – Dudley CCG
In this case study, we describe the challenge, our approach and the outcome from our support for developing, implementing and evaluating staff idea
IAPT-LTC Early Implementers – NHS England
In this case study, we describe the challenge, our approach and the outcome from our providing support to local evaluation teams for NHS England.
Tools & templates: Problem structuring
Problem trees and driver diagrams can help you to understand the causes and effects of your problem.